Wizards is Changing the Game! For Better or Worse? 

Well, with my first ever Commander beeing Volo, Guide to Monsters and still beeing one of my favorites, this is an annoying nerf since the deck is entirely about having unique creature types :( It was so fun to find those hidden gems in rrally niche tribes...

Some of these feel worse than others. Nagas becoming snakes feels bad. But the some of them make sense. The biggest issue I see is how it changes creature type identity. It’s like a creature type has an archetype that these cards might not fit. It also doesn’t feel consistent when we have both snakes, serpents and wurms. Which I feel are all closer to snakes then nagas. Then we have nightmares, horrors, shades, spectors and spirits, aren’t those the same thing with a coat of paint? Like brake it up into horrors and spirits add an extra word for cards like Nightmare to be a creature - Horse Horror. It just feels really inconsistent with what is being changed, like maybe they’re only changing these because they don’t want to support those types anymore.

Good stuff as always, I can understand changing creature types but the whole tribal thing sounds like an attempt to "not offend anyone"....

It used to be that reading the card explains the card...

I'm with you on the tribal vs kindred. It's not a necessary shift. I also think this is for ease of integration in a way.. Especially with Bloomburrow. We're going to see human like lizards, but they won't be Viashino, even if they look related. I imagine that specifically these 3 types that are changed will be affected in that set

Personally I like the variety of creature types MtG has, and it is disappointing in a way to see some of them go, but I can see some benefits here. Some decks like Volo mentioned in the comments are going to be hurt by this, and that sucks, but it also opens up new possibilities for old cards in eternal formats that never got enough love. An old Cephalid who has never really been commander playable might find a home in a deck like Kiora now and actually show up at tables instead of just being a card from 20 years ago nobody cares about. I'd prefer that they give new support to older types rather than phase them out, but with as many creature types as they are out there doing that would take years of dedicated effort to slot support into set releases. Try too aggressively to throw bones to less-used creature types too quickly and you risk messing with the flow of revolving formats like Limited and Standard. And I honestly think some of the erratas could work better if they went just a little further. Naga to Snake loses something in the translation, but if they made a humanoid subtype then Nagas could be Snake Humanoids or something like that. Then they still get the Snake synergies without losing what separates them from Snakes.

These changes almost exclusively benefit all of the tribes involved. It was done to help gameplay. You've lost one or two synergies to gain hundreds or thousands. Do you know how big it is that the few cephalids we had work with Kiora and cards like Whelming Wave now? That naga can go in snake tribal? Feels like you're treating this as though they removed the cards from the game when that isn't the case. It was two words at most to make these cards more playable than they were. Still doesn't change the fact that they printed detective cards for one set only, but it's a step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned. Also plural of octopus isn't really octopi. It's octopuses. The word is Greek, not Latin.

I think its swapping from Tribal because the word Tribal in magic invokes solely a race... whereas a tribe can actually include anyone/anything accepted into the tribe. That said I think having Tribal or Kindred as a card-type in general is just redundant and pointless... how is "Kindred/Tribal Artifact - Eldrazi" any different from just saying "Artifact - Eldrazi" other than being a waste of text... But I do really like that they are crunching and refining the creature types, there are way too many useless creature types, like how is Berserker, Barbarian, Mercenary, Ranger, and how they depict every Monk not just a Warrior? Do we really need a distinction for Survivor, Peasant, Nomad, Assassin, Rebel, Coward, Serf, Bard, Performer, Worker, Employee!!? Viashino being one of my favorites I don't mind if they are "Lizard" as long as the more specialized names like Moloch, Viashino, Iguanar, Krasis, and etc appear in the names or flavor-text now and then.

I think taking off types like cephalids and vishano that are mtg original types is a bit weird, I’m not super offended by it but it’s really- weird and unnecessary almost? Also taking off naga feels really weird, like that’s a very specific type of creature that makes sense to have its own type, especially since the types they got switched to are ones that already could be their own thing like how Jasper Flint is a Lizard but not a vishano

goblins aren't the same on every plane, heck krenko changes every print, then what are goblins ? tolkiens way they just are elves or orcs, gruul elves decks will get strong

I can get behind the Naga to snake change, but I do not appreciate the change to Cephalids. I have a soft spot in my heart for the tribe and it saddens me.

In my oppinion we just have to ignore their stupid erratas like, I'm not playing Elf kindred, we just keep calling things what they are until wotc gets the hint they are being stupid, also if you gonna errata all those cards be on your way to reprint them asap

Maaan, u complaining about nagas becoming a snakes, but aven dudes are always bird_something and loxodons vere always elephants... (But I totally understand and agree with your points)

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What bugs me most about this is that it just makes the game more annoying to play. "This card says this, but it is actually that." On a digital format where they can just change a string value? Sure, but you can't change paper cards. They should start a service where we can send them cards that were errata'd and they would send you back ones with the "correct" text. At the very least, the annoyance from it would probably stop them from errata'ing so much 😂

Are Homarids now changing to Lobsters?

Good video, but your audio is too low.

They also have memos out internally on how goblins can be depicted on art 🤣

If you really want to be angry, go look at the creatures types that exist. They errataed viashinos and nagas out of existence but why not minotour into ox? merfolk into fish, dinosaur into birds. heck, dogs into wolf. This is a disrespect for the cultural heritage from where nagas came from, and from magic's own legacy, viashinos and cephalids were dope.

This only gives people more opportunities. I do not see how you can complain about this.

Fuck wizards we make the rules.

whats up my nagas?

As a older player i like when the viashino and cephalids get love more than changed. I like that you get more access to old cards but viashinos are literally a mtg only thing. I like weird tribal decks and i run zirilan and my brother uses hivis against me because i love dragons. I guess what im getting at is it feels like a death to the old stories... like before you would use creative writing to bring back a odd creature type and give them shine unstead of pumping out a billion sets for money and not really caring about the lore and stories behind the sets. Maybe im in the wrong because they could make more viashinos and call them viashinos but then just lizard their type so ? I just feel like money comes before storytelling anymore and the books meant a lot to us before. Chainers Torment is still one of my favorite books ever. But i sneered at planes walkers and gods and now use both so... the death of nostalgia is just weird sometimes. The cephalid emporer and empresses are going to reign havoc with the deep sea decks. Scary to add control bounce and tap board effects to decks that are usually only held at bay by wipes and chump blockers since hard to get them trample but might just change them up as they already had access to green so maybe more monocolor powrr...? I cant afford new cards anyway so i just cherry pick after price drops at this point anyway haha.

In my experience the only people that voice actual offense to "tribal" as a tag for the CHILDRENS CARD GAME are those that aren't usually part of any "affected group" and are the type to be offended on others behalf... aka. the average twitter user.

They change tribes to make them make more sense and make it easier to build those tribal decks which have more support. It's not some PC conspiracy, except the changing tribal to kindred. That's stupid

i think the errata to serpent means Koma has every snake printed as access to her sac ability